Grace M. Chapman, a retired secretary and a former North Linthicum resident, died Saturday of natural causes at a hospital in Fairfield, Iowa. She was 89.
Born Grace M. McCabe and raised in Rochester, N.Y., she married Stanley J. Chapman, a Westinghouse Electric Corp. quality assurance inspector, in 1940. He died in 1997.
In 1938, Mrs. Chapman went to work as a secretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington and later for the Army missile shop at Fort Meade. She retired in 1975.
Mrs. Chapman was a member of the steering committee that founded Anne Arundel Community College. She was a member of the Secular Third Order of St. Francis and the North Linthicum Improvement Association.
Mrs. Chapman had been an adult literacy volunteer for many years, family members said.
In the 1970s, she and her husband moved to Flagler Beach, Fla., and since 2003, she had lived in Eldon, Iowa.
Plans for a memorial service were incomplete yesterday.
Surviving are five sons, Scott Chapman of Columbia, Brian Chapman of Bel Air, Steven Chapman and Frank Chapman, both of Arnold, and Mike Chapman of Ormond Beach, Fla.; three daughters, Elaine McCorry of Rochester, N.Y., Priscilla Coffman of Eldon and Monica Stua of Flagler Beach; a brother, Vincent McCabe of Rochester, N.Y.; two sisters, Frances Broughton of Cocoa Beach, Fla., and Marlene Lacy of Fort Pierce, Fla.; 16 grandchildren; and 24 great-grandchildren.